If not for climate change, 2017’s Hurricane Harvey might have flooded half as many homes in the Houston area, a new study finds.
Climate Change May Have Doubled the Number of Houston Homes Flooded by Hurricane Harvey
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Signs of CO2 in a Planet Beyond Our Solar System
In a remarkable display of its precision and accuracy, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a collaboration between NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Canadian Space Agency, has captured definitive evidence for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a gas giant planet orbiting a Sun-like star 700 light-years away.
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An Extrasolar World Covered in Water?
An international team of researchers led by Charles Cadieux, a Ph.D. student at the Université de Montréal and member of the Institute for Research on Exoplanets (iREx), has announced the discovery of TOI-1452 b, an exoplanet orbiting one of two small stars in a binary system located in the Draco constellation about 100 light-years from Earth.
